Thankfully, the anti-science propaganda campaign surrounding man-made climate change seems to have lost some of its effect.

Are you seeing storm clouds on the horizon? Two recent studies suggest that the latest anti-science campaign is following its forerunners--the propaganda campaigns attempting to refute science that tobacco causes cancer, that CFC's caused the hole in the ozone layer, and so on—into oblivion. Global warming denial seems to have climbed to a peak in 2010, and global warming acceptance is now climbing. This bodes well for rational public policy.

Stillhere

Ohwiseone

harryanderson

Everybody should pay his or her own way. Government should avoid picking winners and losers.

But government picks fossil fuel companies to be the winners.

According to the International Monetary Fund, “On a ?pre-tax? basis, subsidies for petroleum products, electricity, natural gas, and coal reached $480 billion in 2011 (0.7 percent of global GDP or 2 percent of total government revenues). “

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480 billion bucks. You can cut government spending by 2% just by eliminating subsidies on fossil fuel.

JoeBlow

The US State Department recently ordered 160,000 Hazmat suits for the Ebola virus, prompting concerns that the outbreak of the virus could be much larger than anticipated. In a press release on MarketWatch, Lakeland Industries described how the State Department has a massive demand for the suits

________________________________________ Christopher J. Ryan, the CEO of Lakeland Industries, stated: Lakeland stands ready to join the fight against the spread of Ebola. We understand the difficulty of getting appropriate products through a procurement system that in times of crisis favors availability over specification, and we hope our added capacity will help alleviate that problem. With the U.S. State Department alone putting out a bid for 160,000 suits, we encourage all protective apparel companies to increase their manufacturing capacity for sealed seam garments so that our industry can do its part in addressing this threat to global health. Only 1400 federal workers are currentl